Vietnamese Archives - The Joy of Food

Vietnamese

Posts about Vietnamese food on The Joy of Food blog.

Kingfisher

June 3, 2025 in Comfort, Dessert, Drink, Gone Fishing, French, Healthy, United States, Meaty Goodness, The Milky Way, Vegetarian, San Diego, CA, Vietnamese 4 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — The heated patio at Kingfisher can be an interesting place to enjoy your $200 dinner, a patch of sidewalk that’s just a hop, skip, and a jump from the #2 bus stop in a quirky part of town. At best people will […]

Pho Hoa

March 1, 2022 in Carbapalooza, Comfort, United States, Meaty Goodness, San Diego, CA, Vietnamese 4 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — In a city teeming with Vietnamese noodle shops specializing in the very fragrant beef noodle soup known as pho, one of them has to be getting it right. In San Diego, Pho Hoa might just be it. They do one thing here, […]

The Slanted Door

September 15, 2021 in Gone Fishing, Healthy, United States, Vegetarian, San Francisco, CA, Vietnamese 3 comments

San Francisco, CA (The Joy of Food) — On my most recent trip to northern California, I was communing with nature at Yosemite and desperately seeking two things: a wifi signal and food not meant for prisoners. A return visit to the Slanted Door — my favorite restaurant in San […]

K Sandwiches

March 10, 2021 in Comfort, United States, San Diego, CA, Vietnamese 0 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — In the past, I’ve waxed blasphemously about my dislike of the sandwich, piled high with slabs of sliced meats flanked by soft, fresh bread that is powerless to hold any of it together. In doing this, I’ve inadvertently maligned the humble banh-mi, […]